Classic fights I've watched recently

[elmersalsa]

Pryor/Arguello 1........................... I think on this night he would have beat some welterweight's like cuevas :P

Yeah, in your wildest dreams.

[handsofstone]

Ivan Robinson vs Arturo Gatti 1+2

Both crackers,especially the first 1

[palooka]

Pryor/Arguello 1........................... I think on this night he would have beat some welterweight's like cuevas :P

Yeah, in your wildest dreams.

Baited.

[Tomasino]

Toney vs Prince Charles Williams...on someone's advice...great fight

[palooka]

Toney vs Prince Charles Williams...on someone's advice...great fight

I'm not just 'someone', Thomas.

[handsofstone]

Carmen Basilio vs Tony DeMarco 1+2

Wars

[handsofstone]

Tony Lopez vs Rocky Lockridge 1+2

[handsofstone]

Jack Johnson vs Stanley Ketchel

[evrenb]

Jimmy Ellis vs Floyd Patterson. Very interesting fight. Ellis took some real battering shots. His nose was splattered. Ellis done some very effective work also. A good match on the earlybird satellite.

[handsofstone]

Muhammad Ali vs Ken Norton 1,2+3

None of them were great fights IMO,i didnt score them but they were close,Ali very lazy

[stevedoc]

Muhammad Ali vs Ken Norton 1,2+3

None of them were great fights IMO,i didnt score them but they were close,Ali very lazy

I said recently in another thread that these were the first fights of Ali that I saw and I wasn't impressed at all

[handsofstone]

Muhammad Ali vs Ken Norton 1,2+3

None of them were great fights IMO,i didnt score them but they were close,Ali very lazy

I said recently in another thread that these were the first fights of Ali that I saw and I wasn't impressed at all

Understandably nearly 4 years in exile didint help Ali and he was a totally different fighter from the 1 who used to bamboozle fighters by sticking and moving,in and out,blistering combinations and excellent lateral movement,he found another way,effective too in its own right but it wasnt beautiful boxing,he still showed cameos of the speedy flurrys and a sharp jab but 90% of the time he backed up usually laying on the ropes,spoiling,holding and leaning on opponents

Im not taking anything away from his achievements i love him and have more dvds and books of him than anyone else and his accomplishments cant be denied but if im honest the most boring thing about him is his style(post excile

[milpool]

I watched Barry Jones v Acelino Freitas last week, not a classic but worth a watch.

[handsofstone]

Just watched Roberto Duran vs Iran Barklay for first time

[stevedoc]

Just watched Roberto Duran vs Iran Barklay for first time

Have you seen Duran vs Davey Moore .....great fight .......when I watched Duran vs Barkley the next day without knowing the result I broke my girlfriends sofa jumping up when Duran decked Barkley great fight

[handsofstone]

Just watched Roberto Duran vs Iran Barklay for first time

Have you seen Duran vs Davey Moore .....great fight .......when I watched Duran vs Barkley the next day without knowing the result I broke my girlfriends sofa jumping up when Duran decked Barkley great fight

I havent seen the Moore fight Steve,i will watch it though at some point,i do know he KO'd Davey though

[stevedoc]

Just watched Roberto Duran vs Iran Barklay for first time

Have you seen Duran vs Davey Moore .....great fight .......when I watched Duran vs Barkley the next day without knowing the result I broke my girlfriends sofa jumping up when Duran decked Barkley great fight

I havent seen the Moore fight Steve,i will watch it though at some point,i do know he KO'd Davey though

Great fight Duran was considered washed up and Moore the young superstar in the making Davey was a big favourite

[littlepug]

Some other fights worth a rewatch- Carbajal v Gonzales, moon v konadu, fenech v nelson 1 and 2 and just for the finish fenech v groves

[stevedoc]

Sticking with the little guys Dave boy McCauley vs Fidel bassa both fights were great

[handsofstone]

Next up for me is Danny Lopez vs Mika Ayala

[littlepug]

Sticking with the little guys Dave boy McCauley vs Fidel bassa both fights were great

Good shout, McCauley was quite inexperienced, he had only just won British title before taking on bassa , he did well to come back from those defeats a lesser fighter might of been ruined.

[stevedoc]

Sticking with the little guys Dave boy McCauley vs Fidel bassa both fights were great

Good shout, McCauley was quite inexperienced, he had only just won British title before taking on bassa , he did well to come back from those defeats a lesser fighter might of been ruined.

To go on and beat duke McKenzie was a bit of a shock if I remember rightly

[littlepug]

Sticking with the little guys Dave boy McCauley vs Fidel bassa both fights were great

Good shout, McCauley was quite inexperienced, he had only just won British title before taking on bassa , he did well to come back from those defeats a lesser fighter might of been ruined.

To go on and beat duke McKenzie was a bit of a shock if I remember rightly

Yeah I think your right, also the matlala fight looks even better today and maybe his marquee win.

[handsofstone]

For the last several months ive been working through a top 100 list watching all the classics,im up to about 51 but ive watched a lot more because ive been watching every match up,for instance Ali-Frazier 3 was number 1 but before watching the Thrilla,i watched the first 2 fights before,and ive done this all the way up the list so ive probably watched nearly 150 classics lately,which is why you might have noticed throughout this thread ive watched all the match ups between the fighters,

A lot of them ive seen before but even more i hadnt



http://www.esnewsreporting.com/best-fights-all-time/

[stevedoc]

For the last several months ive been working through a top 100 list watching all the classics,im up to about 51 but ive watched a lot more because ive been watching every match up,for instance Ali-Frazier 3 was number 1 but before watching the Thrilla,i watched the first 2 fights before,and ive done this all the way up the list so ive probably watched nearly 150 classics lately,which is why you might have noticed throughout this thread ive watched all the match ups between the fighters,

A lot of them ive seen before but even more i hadnt



http://www.esnewsreporting.com/best-fights-all-time/

A few strange choices for me in that list I don't think Ali v Norton 3 was a great or entertain fight myself or hagler vs Leonard
The boxing news did a 100 best fighter special edition mag try and look it up ,I've got it some where .